This a partial list of prehistoric lakes.

• In North America, where the Great Lakes are now:
  • Glacial Lake Algonquin at Lake Huron
  • Glacial Lake Chicago
  • Glacial Lake Duluth at Lake Superior
  • Glacial Lake Minong at Lake Superior
  • Glacial Lake Maumee at Lake Erie
  • Glacial Lake Iroquois at Lake Ontario
• Elsewhere in North America:
  • Lake Agassiz in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Minnesota, North Dakota
  • Lake Bonneville in Utah and Idaho and Nevada
  • Glacial Lake Columbia
  • Lake Lahontan in Nevada
  • Lake Manly covered Death Valley
  • Glacial Lake McConnell
  • Glacial Lake Missoula in Montana
  • Glacial Lake Ojibway in eastern Canada
  • Glacial Lake Passaic in New Jersey
  • Glacial Lake Regina
  • Glacial Lake Saginaw
  • Glacial Lake Tight, named for William G. Tight)
  • Glacial Lake Tonawanda in New York state
  • Glacial Lake Wisconsin in Wisconsin
• In other countries:
  • Lake Ballivián in South America, covered the Altiplano in the Andes
  • Lake Harrison in the Midlands in England
  • Lake Lapworth in Shropshire in England
  • Lake Makgadikgadi Kalahari Desert in Africa
  • Lake Pickering
  • Baltic ice lake, Ancylus lake, freshwater periods of the Baltic Sea

See also

• List of lakes